‘Old school’ meets digital in Hutt printmakers’ exhibition

29 OCTOBER 2013

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‘Old school’ meets digital in Hutt printmakers’ exhibition

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Flight of the imagination: Impressions III guest artist Sam Broad, second from right, with Hutt Art Society printmakers, from left, Jan Mueller Welschof, Jocelyn Hendry, Jeanie Randall and Jo Constable.

The old and the new will hang side by side in the Hutt Art Society printmakers’ third annual show, Impressions III.

Guest artist Sam Broad, a printmaker, mixed media artist, and picture-framer in Lower Hutt, will exhibit woodcuts, created by one of the many traditional ‘old-school’ techniques still popular with printmakers today.

Prints using modern techniques such as digital and photographic processes will be shown alongside etchings, drypoints, monoprints, collagraphs, solar-plate prints, and woodprints, giving visitors to the Hutt Art Society’s Odlin Gallery the chance to see a wide variety of techniques all in one show.

A printmaker will be present throughout the show to answer questions about the various processes. Framed and unframed work, artist’s cards and books and other items will be for sale during the exhibition.

Broad’s lively woodcuts, filled with witty, often acerbic, sometimes poignant, comment on life and politics in New Zealand – the good and bad – will be a feature of the show. Broad is also a guest tutor at the Hutt Art Society’s Summer School in January 2014 where he will give students an insight into achieving tonal and linear forms in woodcut-linocut printmaking.

Broad has just returned from a week of teaching at the Kokomai Creative Festival in Masterton. At the end of the festival, Broad joined 14 others in a Pecha Kucha (chit-chat in Japanese) presentation, with the theme ‘Flight of the Imagination’, where participants have 20 seconds to show 20 slides.

Other presenters included a fitness-instructor grandmother; musician Warren Maxwell, Ra Smith, who talked about how leadership should serve the community, and not the other way around, and other artists.

“It’s a slideshow of people, a moment in time you don’t normally get – no-one’s asking questions,” said Broad. “It’s really quick, then on to the next person. It’s so invigorating. You just get this sense of people doing stuff.”

Impressions III opens on Monday, 4 November at the Odlin Gallery, a block from the Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt. It will run from 10am-4pm daily until Sunday, November 16.

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